Tag: Christianity
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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
In 1995 Mark Noll wrote The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, a book directed towards Christian academics that was, thankfully, read widely beyond academia. The book’s hook came in a phrase often quoted over the past 15 years: The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. A…
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Meals With Friends: Your Home or a Restaraunt?
On Sunday our church begins a series of sermons about hospitality. Related to this topic is something I often wonder about: Why has the setting for meals with friends and family shifted from the home to the restaurant? There must be many reasons for this (and I realize this shift isn’t true for everyone): less…
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Everything Is Evangelism
This is why St. Paul in his letters does not find it necessary to urge his readers to be active in evangelism but does find it necessary to warn them against any compromise with the rulers of this age. Leslie Newbigin’s words about evangelism in The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society will catch some readers…
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The Sabbath, the Stranger, and Commodification
An article I wrote about the Sabbath and undocumented immigrants is now up at UnDocumented.tv. Does anyone keep the Sabbath anymore? I’ve come to the conclusion that the fourth commandment is the most ignored of the Ten Commandments. If we did keep Sabbath, I wonder how our thoughts about our undocumented neighbors might change. The…
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One.Life
It’s unlikely that you are the intended reader of Scot McKnight’s latest book, One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read it. Who is the book for? While he never says it, the presence of the hundreds of undergraduate students- Christian and not- he has taught over the years lurk in…
David W. Swanson 